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CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REFORT. other object than peace, which it thinks to
silence. Meanwhile the public remains in | pockets of the shareholders were the Direc- bring about by strengthening its power. ignorance of the guiding spirit, and only There is Я
tors of one our of principal railways com. great movement of feeling knows from the ext raal" affecta, which | palled to take their instructions na to fares, among thinking people in all the pations of cannot be concealed, what really is the and details of construction generally from Europe in favour of arbitration and the principle underlying the recent chang x in peaceful settlement of dispu es and of escape the distribution of the ships. It is note them might be personally. “Dic contended, the shareholders, bower 'r competent each of from the enormous expenditure involved; worthy that in the interpretation of these ! we think wensgle,” mycour congimporary, by the present STRIEI. There is no overi acts each of the great parties in the sinister purpose in this country, or
that the now distribution of business at any State has its own opinions, which differ the Admiralty involved one-man p×iwer, desire to place ourselves in the front rank | diametrically. One thing is not denied, and of those who consider that the warlike that is that many of these changes hire formerly for the organisation of war and instead of being responsible as attitude of the Powers as displayed by the been arowedly made from motives of detribution of the Fleet, the First Rn fond excessive growth of armaments is a curse to economy. The ship-building programme it now, accurling to the now u Europe." Then the Leader of the opposition, for the present year has been cut down, and
hame, con- Mr. BALFOUR, leaped to the fray.
cerned with the preparation for war, with "We it has been assumed by the side in oppsi. all desire disarmament'
all the large questions of neral plier and he said, meaning | Lion that this has been done with the really that we all hat to pay for armament, object simply of gradually accustom ng) sen going efficiency of the Flest, it corgvnim. maritime war'nre, with the fighting and "but the Government's metho ls are likely the country to a reduction of it carmaments, Tron and mobilisation; with the control of to inspire the foreign Powers with distrust The battleships on the Melit ·rranean and and suspicion of our desires. You claim outlying squidrons have been reduced in ordnance departments
the intelligence, hydrographical, and naval to the British people that while you are number, or altogether withdrawn, and this thing more or less than an elaboration of reducing expenditure you are increasing the is capable, of course, of two interpretations. Į the old order In «rt it is the sting; and strength of your Navy and your Army, and On the one side it i alleged that this
so far as the interper ism is eageeryed, you are going to The Hague Conference increases the power of quickly adding to there is the fet that Sir Joux FreHER, AS to ask the foreign nations to decrease, unt the efficiency of ons or other «qu uliou, as one of the thepot metuler of the Exher their expenditure, but their forces. Your
may be found mamentarily advisable, while | Committee, recommended that the old atm sphere of benevolent platitudes will the other equally informs us that this has Admiralty system be applied at the War h.ve no effect on foreign diplomatists."
heen done with the deliberate intention of ¦ Office, be sense unter alia, it hit réairel Clearly to tell the Hague Conference that permitting the foreign influence of Great | the co sfidone - of the Navy an ! the Nation.” Britain was reducing her navy, while telling Britain to gradually die out from want of But is the pr sent régime at the Navy so the British that the reductions in ant
xhibiti o. On the whole the Balance of | much of a greater efficiency, involves a falsehood some. public opinion has rather tended against where; but in polities a spade is rarely a The Government, and it has been considered spade. Then Mr. BALFOUR became that it was merely a matter of time as fol virtuously in liguart. He was saying that when the country would at løst wake up to when the Prince Minister came to tell the the danger of neglecting its chief metus of Hague Conference of his peace-loving inten-defence, sud that the most that could be would not be a very able officer if he failed tions, they would turn to him—and here | hoped was that this awakening should } Sir HENRY CAMPBELL, BANNERMAN inter.
to recognise the fret " He has had brilliant come before some very seri mis danger Was calleggies, and in a few weeks will be joinėd jected: At your suggestion.“ It was
to be apprehended, for which the nation
by Sir Wiliam May and Rear-Admiral quite fair; it had been done by the other should all at once discover itself imprepired. | Wixstor, both of whom side during the Boer War; hut we read that
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are capable, augst the newspapers which a great volume of cheering went
experienced, and progressure officers. Sir up when have taken an intelligent interest
it the Mr. BALFOUR indignantly retortel
Jon Foster was appointed by the last that is affairs of the Navy has of reent years
Gioverament, and is not the creation of the an unworthy interruption." He had the been Engineering. Avowedly Engineering PREMIER in a tight corner as it was; this has
present administration, and so it can hardly beet content to look On without
he urged that he is 111 protest was anti-climax, and spoiled the | being hampered by party ties to
any way their creature, and no one would say of him that effect. So also did his remark that the side or the other, fn this instance
he bus not the common-sens, in case bis PREMIER Could not ride two horses at once
it is satisfactory g for to find that Few men cao, but Mr. BALFOUR on the Engineering points out that much of the ! hicdepartment is in any danger of suffering revomineu lations are made light of, or that Tariff policy is supposed to have been recent adverse criticism proceeds from want from undus parsimony, of making an appeal diligen ly attempting the circus trick, of sufficient appreciation of what has really ! to the Nu on Then the file of a motion by Mr. CARLTON been done, and what at the
at large Meanwhile the nati su seems to have every reason, hitherto BELLAIRS showed how far the King's Navy actually going on For matance much has ¦ at Joust, to place coufile ice in Sir Jo¤x is above and beyond party. Mr. BELLAIRS been made of Lord Charles Beresford's: FishER; and having that confidence, and is regarded as a naval expert by his party, supposed hesitation to accept the command, foeing that be or not the min to pormit his and he moved an amendment giving the of the Channel Fleet in view of certain
intentions and designs to be trifled wit's by accepted definition (and Mr. Barock's) of 2 unsatisfactory distributions of the the Two Power Standard. The PREMIER Home Fleet. Naturally much was made of
any muuúistry without spuking, wo may begged him to withdraw it, to "expedite this,
apparently rest content If the present fe Te|SON under yang Admiral
Government could make the country equally business," and he did so. Obviously the BERESFORD's hesitation being presumed to
assured with regard to the other departments King's navy is not above and beyond party. | indicate the desire of the Government to
of State, it would win the gratitu le of the We doubt if anything is above party, and, unduly weaken this feet below any point of nation; but this unfortu ritely see us as far we might add, there seems nothing neithreasonable efficiency. If we are to accept ; off as ever.
the explanation offered by Engineering the misunders auling WEB ou the contrary rather of a personal nature than one uf naval efficiency. Iørd Charles Beresford, in view of the importance of the Channel
(Dai y Press, 9th April } Command, held that it ought to melude There is probably no questi ʼn of wider also the command in chief of the Home interest in the Far East than the question Fleet, which it is intended to mak-indepen. ¦ of agreements as between emplovers and dent. This of course may be a matter of employed, and no question about which there grave julgtent on the instant, but can hardly be elevated to one of deep underlying¦ princisd. At all events, at the moment it
a it 18 not very pressing; and doubtless in case of actual emergency would go far to! subject generally. There have been dis- cure itself. There is in fact, after the late i putes of the koud recently in Hongkong tot altogether justifiable epidemic of would.; and e's where, and they do not always be popular control, and popular criticism necessarily get into court. of the filettaute type, a reviving tendency to however, with which they are heard of, and return to less embarrassing interferences, the almost nuiversal prastie of making Much must be left to the personal judg. ¦ su lai agreements, suggests the desirability of ment of the heads of any extensive and well- both sides giving the fullest consideration managed couceru, It would for instance t, the matter. There is, we believe, a involve very unpleasant consequences to the fairly general feeling among employers that
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(Daily Press, 8th April). Does the policy of concentrating the British Fleet in home waters imply a desire on the part of the Admiralty to increase its efficiency; or 18 the withdrawal of the various squadrous from outlying stations undertaken with the sole desire of economy, and with the deliberate intention of accustoming the nation to witness the gradual extinction of British influence with foreigu Powers? It is characteristic of the little confidence reposed in the individuals of which the present Government is com- posed by either of the grent parties, that the explanation of Lord TWELDMOUTH, the present First Lord, go practically for nothing, while the one man who could tell, Admiral Sir JOHN FISHеr, is, of course, bound by the exigencies of his office to
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